NRSInsights’ September 2026 Retail Same-Store Sales Report
Globe Newswire•09/10/2026•12:25 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Same-store sales increased 0.1% year-over-year in September 2026
- ➤Units sold decreased 2.0% year-over-year
- ➤Baskets per store decreased 3.4% year-over-year
- ➤Top-500-item average prices increased 2.1% year-over-year
- ➤NRS terminals processed $2.2 billion across 148 million September transactions
Expert Statements
Brandon Thurber, VP, Data Sales & Client Success at NRS
“Same-store sales in September 2026 increased 0.1% compared to September 2025. In August, sales had decreased 1.1% year-over-year. Units sold and baskets sold both decreased year-over-year in September for the third consecutive month. Our measure of price inflation on the top 500 selling items edged up to 2.1% in September.”
Brandon Thurber, VP, Data Sales & Client Success at NRS
“Counterintuitively given the topline results, sales of premium offerings continued to grow strongly. Performance nutrition shakes, prepared cocktails, multigrain snacks and certain tobacco categories all increased sales by double digits year-over-year.”
Brandon Thurber, VP, Data Sales & Client Success at NRS
“Regionally, sales in the Washington DC metro area and Los Angeles led the sales decline. Continuing a trend, stores in the South and West regions generally under-performed, with the notable exception of the Raleigh-Durham metro area, which has been a positive outlier for some time. Same store sales in the Chicago and Detroit metro areas reported slight year-over-year increases.”
The average price paid for the top 500 items in September increased 2.1% year-over-year
NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NRSInsights, a provider of sales data and analytics drawn from retail transactions processed through the National Retail Solutions (NRS) point-of-sale (POS) platform, today announced comparative retail same-store sales results for September 2026.
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